When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.
The weirder the better for me.
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.
We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.
If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
I have so much to thank reality TV for.
There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.
